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Alphacoronaviruses detected in fecal samples of bats captured in Moscow and Rostov-on-Don in 2021
- Authors: Korneenko E.V.1, Samoilov A.E.1,2, Artyushin I.V.3, Yusefovich A.P.3, Dolotova S.M.4, Klyuchnikova E.O.2, Sbarzaglia V.A.2, Gladkikh A.S.2, Dedkov V.G.2, Speranskaya A.S.1,5
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Affiliations:
- Research Institute for Systems Biology and Medicine
- Saint-Petersburg Pasteur Institute, Federal Service on Consumers’ Rights Protection and Human Well-Being Surveillance
- Lomonosov Moscow State University
- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
- Lomonosov Moscow State University, Biological Department
- Issue: Vol 22, No 2 (2022)
- Pages: 203-208
- Section: Conference proceedings
- URL: https://journals.eco-vector.com/MAJ/article/view/108718
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17816/MAJ108718
- ID: 108718
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: Bats are a reservoir of a large number of viruses, including coronaviruses. Monitoring viruses in bats is an important task.
AIM: To detect viruses belonging to Coronaviridae family in bats which habitat in European part of Russia.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: We used PCR amplification of viral genome fragments, followed by high-throughput sequencing.
RESULTS: RdRp gene fragments of at least two different alphacoronaviruses (Bat coronavirus, Coronaviridae) were revealed in four bats of three species.
CONCLUSIONS: Our results demonstrate the presence of viruses of the Alphacoronavirus genus in 4 of 17 bats. Coronavirus-positive animals were captured in 2021 in Moscow, Moscow Region and Rostov-on-Don, these four animals have been found to be carriers of different isolates of the same alphacoronavirus, which allows us to suggest the possibility of transmission of this virus between animals between different species. One animal was found as carrier of genome fragments of two different alphacoronaviruses.
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Elena V. Korneenko
Research Institute for Systems Biology and Medicine
Author for correspondence.
Email: lenakorneenko0@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5877-0719
Research Associate
Russian Federation, MoscowAndrei E. Samoilov
Research Institute for Systems Biology and Medicine; Saint-Petersburg Pasteur Institute, Federal Service on Consumers’ Rights Protection and Human Well-Being Surveillance
Email: andrei.samoilov@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8284-3164
Scopus Author ID: 57193001010
Research Associate
Russian Federation, Moscow; Saint PetersburgIlya V. Artyushin
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Email: sometyx@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4911-3677
Scopus Author ID: 35098142000
ResearcherId: J-6941-2018
Cand. Sci. (Biol.), Research Associate, Biological Department
Russian Federation, MoscowAlexander P. Yusefovich
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Email: yuzefovich2015elf@gmail.com
Junior Research Associate
Russian Federation, MoscowSofya M. Dolotova
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Email: dolotova.sm@phystech.edu
Student
Russian Federation, Dolgoprudny, MoscowEkaterina O. Klyuchnikova
Saint-Petersburg Pasteur Institute, Federal Service on Consumers’ Rights Protection and Human Well-Being Surveillance
Email: Ekaterina.ibg@gmail.com
Cand. Sci. (Biol.), Junior Research Associate
Russian Federation, Saint PetersburgValeriya A. Sbarzaglia
Saint-Petersburg Pasteur Institute, Federal Service on Consumers’ Rights Protection and Human Well-Being Surveillance
Email: Sbarzaglia.valeriya@gmail.com
Cand. Sci. (Biol.), Junior Research Associate
Russian Federation, Saint PetersburgAnna S. Gladkikh
Saint-Petersburg Pasteur Institute, Federal Service on Consumers’ Rights Protection and Human Well-Being Surveillance
Email: angladkikh@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6759-1907
ResearcherId: G-6045-2015
Cand. Sci. (Biol.), Senior Research Associate
Russian Federation, Saint PetersburgVladimir G. Dedkov
Saint-Petersburg Pasteur Institute, Federal Service on Consumers’ Rights Protection and Human Well-Being Surveillance
Email: vgdedkov@gmail.com
MD, Cand. Sci. (Med.), Deputy Director for Research
Russian Federation, Saint PetersburgAnna S. Speranskaya
Research Institute for Systems Biology and Medicine; Lomonosov Moscow State University, Biological Department
Email: hanna.s.939@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6326-1249
Cand. Sci. (Biol.), Senior Research Associate
Russian Federation, Moscow; MoscowReferences
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